Nature Quotes

Tacitus - it is human nature to hate him whom you have...
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourse upon the First Ten Books of Livy
As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool.
Akhenaton
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurbe
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
There are two classes of poets - The poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.
Elisha Potte
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore.
Henry Ward Beeche
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN.
William Shakespeare
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Margaret Fulle
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
Aristotle
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
Johann von Goethe
Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.
Francis Bacon
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.
Francis Quarles
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding.
Jacob Brownowski
Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.
T. T. Munge
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
Bellamy Brooks
Equation 1. 2 - 9 is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions...
Bate, Mueller & White, 1971, "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics".
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.
Blaise Pascal
Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.
Author Unknown
Our The Stoic motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is only one nature - The division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
Bill Wulf
Nature loves a burst of energy.
Boe Lightman
It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve.
Galileo Galilei
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
To be a well - Flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature.
William Shakespeare
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
William Rotsle
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles
A father is a banker provided by nature.
French Prove
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Mere
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Fran Lebowitz